There is some yes and no here. At least in the case of
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2011 Minis, some of the new Thunderbolt->PCI-X card
boxes can nearly fully support any PCI-X video card,
if running Windows7 via Bootcamp. In OSX however,
a Thunderbolt aware driver for the video card is required.
So, this would also be true for the 2012 as it is an OSX
limitation and not hardware.
There are Thunderbolt->Express Card adapters (Sonnet
is main source). They seem to be limitied as to which
Express Cards are usable. Again, it seems to be a
driver issue.
So as yet, external GPUs seem to be accessible only via
these pricey Thunderbolt->PCI-X boxes with Windows
External Graphics Card For Mac Mini 2012
(using Bootcamp install) and not OSX.
Mac Mini With Egpu
Nov 9, 2012 11:23 AM